Monki left Aston Villa two years later as president of the club’s soccer business. “I think it’s a growing project,” he said when he announced. He could not have been any more wrong.
When he arrived on the surface in the summer of 2023, when he was clearly on the brink of disaster, when he was even hurt beneath the surface, when he joined an ostensible football club, broader due diligence might have been expected from such a highly respected, world-renowned transfer guru.
Unai Emery took the reins from Steven Gerrard and returned Villa to Europe from relegation risk, and safely watched one season of Emery Monch’s partnership in the Champions League. But progress has been unfolding in the time bomb of the wage bill that has since threatened to explode spectacularly. This was exploded by Monchi Hamstrung due to UEFA regulations to build teams to compete at the highest level.
UEFA’s Team Cost Rules (SCR) states that clubs can only spend up to 70% of their revenue on players’ wages, but he probably f***s Aston Villa by continuing to provide huge salaries without paying much attention to the outcome. They currently pay Jadon Sancho £200,000 a week to £200,000 a week to sit on a bench that pays more for Marcus Rashford’s previous service.
At the end of last season, Tottenham spent 46% of its revenue on wages, while Manchester United and Arsenal were 51%, while Villa’s wages and return rates were a whopping 91%.
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A 57-year-old third person who tends to refer to himself – “I’m Monki, for better or worse,” he arrives at the villa and suggests that whatever it means – he is not a man who is not lacking in confidence. And we don’t know yet whether he’s been pushed and stopped by his hand in a villa of chaos, but our guess is that he’s not so sad that he jumped out of what appears to be a sunken ship.
After a summer when the club spent just £26 million on new players, their legacy of crushing failures in their Champions League appearances last season is seen through their intermittent Premier League performances, denies the memo movement during the transfer period. Saturday’s first league goal of the season brought almost joy to the 10-man Sunderland.
“My first idea was to go home and rest because I have a high level of stress,” Monki said before revealing how Emery persuaded him to take part in the villa project. “When it rained more, they brought umbrellas,” he added.
He certainly regrets not acting on his instincts two years later, but he speculates that these stress levels have reached a previously unseen zenith in the monsoon that he has not seen umbrellas at the villa park. And now you start to wonder how much Emery is still committed to the Villa cause.
He lacked ideas and was candidly tired of Flanderland. He may also be pleased with the opportunity to “go home and rest” like his closest confidant.
